Jasia Reichardt
Jasia Reichardt (1933, Warsaw) is a British art critic, curator, and writer.
In the 1950s she was assistant editor of the weekly arts magazine Art News and Review. From 1963 to 1971 she was assistant director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. In 1965, she curated the exhibition Between Poetry and Painting on concrete poetry and art, during whose preparation she met Max Bense. She curated the first major international exhibition on computer art, Cybernetic Serendipity, which was exhibited at the ICA in London in 1968 after two years of preparation.
From 1974 to 1976 Reichardt was director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery. She has taught at the Architectural Association and other colleges. She has organised and catalogued the Themerson Archive.
Publications
- editor, Between Poetry and Painting, London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1965, 81 pp. Exh. catalogue.
- editor, Cybernetic Serendipidity. The Computer and the Arts: a Studio International Special Issue, London: Studio International, Jul 1968; 2nd ed., rev., Sep 1968, 103 pp. Exh. catalogue. Features a cover designed by Franciszka Themerson; an introduction by Jasia Reichardt; an overview of cybernetics and its founder, Norbert Wiener; separate sections dedicated to the connections between the computer and music, dance, poetry, painting, film, architecture, and graphics; a glossary; and a bibliography.
- editor, The Magazine of the Institute of Contemporary Arts 5: "Cybernetic Serendipidity", London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, Aug 1968, 38 pp. With texts by Martin Gardner, Pierre Barbaud, and Charles Csuri.
- editor, The Magazine of the Institute of Contemporary Arts 6: "Cybernetic Serendipidity", ed. Jasia Reichardt, London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, Sep 1968, 38 pp. With texts by Daphne Oram, Max Bense, Petar Milojevic, and Nam June Paik. [1]
- editor, Play Orbit: Exhibition of Toys and Games, London: Studio international, 1969, 186 pp. Exh. catalogue.
- The Computer in Art, London: Studio Vista, 1971; New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1971, 96 pp.
- editor, Cybernetics, Art and Ideas, London: Studio Vista, 1971, 207 pp. Introduction.
- Zeit, Worte und die Kamera: Fotoarbeiten englischer Künstler: steirischer Herbst '76 / Time, Words, and the Camera: Photoworks by British Artists: Styrian Autumn '76, Graz: Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, 1976, 140 pp. (German)/(English)
- Robots: Fact, Fiction, and Prediction, New York: Viking, 1978, 168 pp.
- Les robots arrivent, trans. André-Charles Cohen, Paris: Chene, 1978, 168 pp. (French)
- Robots: kinderspeelgoed, mythen, filmmachines, ruimtevaart, toekomst, Bussum: Romen, 1979, 159 pp. (Dutch)
- "Machines and Art", Leonardo 20:4, 1987.
- editor, Erekutoronikarī yuāzu: denshi jidai no aratanaru shōzō / Electronically Yours [エレクトロニカリー・ユアーズ: 電子時代の新たなる肖像], Tokyo: Tōkyō-to Shashin Bijutsukan (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography), 1998, 165 pp. (Japanese)/(English)
- 15 Journeys: From Warsaw to London, Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, 2012, 175 pp.
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